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Prof. Charles Postel discusses the image and reality of the American Populist or People's Party - its ambitions and reams, failures and successes.

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Prof. Robert Klotz discusses the impact of Thomas Brackett Reed's majoritarian House rules on American politics.

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Zoning Expert Nolan Gray discusses the good and bad of life before zoning in America - and whether we should go back.

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Prof. Kampheofner discusses the trials and triumphs of one of America's lesser known major immigrant communities during the Gilded Age.

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Dr. George Selgin discusses how money was issued and provided before, during, and after the Gilded Age.

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Professor Gaines Foster discusses the motives, challenges, successes, and failures of the Christian moral lobbyists during the Gilded Age.

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Professor Joe Postell discusses the debate between party control and technocratic control of government during the Gilded and Progressive Ages.

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Prof. Eric Adler discusses the first great debate on the importance of studying "the best that has been thought and said" - and what we can learn about it for today.

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Dr. David Beito discusses the ways in which Gilded Age Americans of all classes helped each other out when the government stood aside.

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Dr. David Pietrusza is back to discuss Theodore Roosevelt's single minded focus on war - and his paradoxical avoidance of the same at critical moments.

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Colin Grabow of the CATO Institute discusses the law, history, and future of American internal shipping, from the Gilded Age to today.

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Independent historian Kerry Ellard discusses the chaos and order in America's emerging public school system during the Gilded and Progressive Ages.

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Professor James Patterson discusses the trials and triumphs and divisions within American Catholicism during the Gilded Age.

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Professor Jonathan Sarna discusses the profound changes in Jewish life, culture, politics, and demographics during the Gilded Age and beyond.

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Professor David Bernstein discusses the legal thinking of an often misunderstood Supreme Court ruling, and the "road not taken" in constitutional jurisprudence.

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Professor Wayne Hsieh discusses the importance and struggles of the American Army throughout our era, including funding, training, and different kinds of missions.

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Dr. Bob Hutton discusses the politics, society and economy of Appalachia in the Gilded and Progressive Ages.

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Dr. Brian Cervantez discusses the diversity and change, ethos and mythos of Gilded and Progressive Age Texas.

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Dr. Miles Smith discusses how Protestant America went from elation at the end of the Civil War to dread over their future at the end of WWI.

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